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The Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business (CCAB) has given Ken Coates its 2017 Award for Excellence in Aboriginal Relations for “his deep understanding of past and present realities surrounding Indigenous peoples, together with his compelling ideas about Canada’s future,” according to a CCAB news release.

Calling the last 150 years the most dark and tragic period in their nation’s history, leaders of the Syilx Okanagan Nation say they welcome the federal government’s introduction of a new set of principles to move toward reconciliation with Canada’s First Nations.

A patchwork of roads, ditches and unauthorized dams are scarring First Nations territories in north east B.C. while water sources are being jeopardised by natural gas companies using hundreds of thousands of cubic metres of water for fracking, according to a study conducted for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Herb Norwegian, Grand Chief of the Dehcho First Nations, along with negotiators, are travelling to Dehcho communities throughout southwestern N.W.T. this week to determine if community members want the territorial government at the table during further land claim negotiations.